Impact of perfo-WPS Office
Impact of perfo-WPS Office
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
SESSION:2018-2020
GALGOTIAS UNIVERSITY
GREATER NOIDA,UTTAR PRADESH,INDIA
Introduction :
To improve organizational performance and achieve long-term objectives, some organizations seek to
reengineer their business processes or adopt new technologies that open up a variety of organizational
design options, such as virtual corporations and virtual teams. Other trends that have strong footholds
in today’s organizations include outsourcing and managing global businesses.
Technology. Information technology helps geographically distant companies form alliances and work
together.
Opportunism. Alliances are less permanent, less formal, and more opportunistic than in traditional
partnerships.
Excellence. Each partner brings its core competencies to the alliance, so it is possible to create an
organization with higher quality in every functional area and increase competitive advantage.
Trust. The network structure makes companies more reliant on each other and forces them to
strengthen relationships with partners.
In the concept’s purest form, each company that links up with others to create a virtual corporation is
stripped to its essence. Ideally, the virtual corporation has neither a central office nor an organization
chart, no hierarchy, and no vertical integration. It contributes to an alliance only its core competencies,
or key capabilities. It mixes and matches what it does best with the core competencies of other
companies and entrepreneurs. For example, a manufacturer would only manufacture, while relying on a
product design firm to decide what to make and a marketing company to sell the end result.
Although firms that are purely virtual organizations are still relatively scarce, many companies are
embracing several characteristics of the virtual structure. One example is Cisco Systems. Cisco uses
many manufacturing plants to produce its products, but the company owns none of them. In fact, Cisco
now relies on contract manufacturers for all of its manufacturing needs. Human hands probably touch
fewer than 10 percent of all customer orders, with fewer than half of all orders processed by a Cisco
employee. To the average customer, the interdependency of Cisco’s suppliers and inventory systems
makes it look like one huge, seamless company.
Virtual Teams :
Technology is also enabling corporations to create virtual work teams. Geography is no longer a
limitation when employees are considered for a work team. Virtual teams mean reduced travel time and
costs, reduced relocation expenses, and utilization of specialized talent regardless of an employee’s
location.
When managers need to staff a project, all they need to do is make a list of required skills and a general
list of employees who possess those skills. When the pool of employees is known, the manager simply
chooses the best mix of people and creates the virtual team. Special challenges of virtual teams include
keeping team members focused, motivated, and communicating positively despite their locations. If
feasible, at least one face-to-face meeting during the early stages of team formation will help with these
potential problems.
In today’s high-tech world, teams can exist any place where there is access to the internet. With
globalization and outsourcing being common strategies in business operations today, companies of all
shapes and sizes utilize virtual teams to coordinate people and projects halfway around the world.
Unlike coworkers in traditional teams, virtual team members rarely meet in person, working from
different locations and continents.
Organizations are revising the way they go about the performance review process. And a complete
overhaul of the performance management system could be in the works, according to Mercer research.
“Performance management techniques like forced ranking, technology and continuous feedback have
not achieved the desired impact,” said Lori Holsinger, PhD, global performance management study
leader at Mercer. “There is no silver bullet — employees want a curated, customized experience tailored
to their preferences and employers want a less laborious year-end process that is linked to other talent
priorities.”
The traditional style of feedback tends to come from a manager once or twice a year. However, many
employees interact with several different groups throughout an organization, so Holsinger anticipates
that organizations will be nimbler with how they try to guide employees, soliciting feedback from those
different groups rather than one manager. To do so, they’ll leverage AI by scraping various databases for
communication purposes.
“In the future, it’s really going to shift to a more accurate assessment of who an employee is connected
to,” Holsinger said. “Those individuals then will be more connected and able to provide that feedback
that’s meaningful.”
The second prediction, Holsinger said, is predicated on the idea that HR will become more dynamic in
the future. HR will do this by developing talent models that are more templated, which will be especially
important for startups and high-growth organizations, Holsinger said.
Ultimately, it comes down to HR having the capability to be flexible with goal setting, which is the most
important element of performance management.
“The ability to communicate to employees that these are the priorities I need to focus on today or next
week,” Holsinger said. “Using a more templated approach can really help HR support the business in a
way that they need to be supported in order to take advantage of their most important asset — their
employees.”
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